Nick Martell
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Eighty-one million dollar opening weekend.
That was a record for an original horror movie and they were profitable in one week.
Very profitable in one week.
Backrooms was directed by a 20-year-old named Kane Parsons, who's known for a YouTube series.
And at 20 years old, Parsons is now the youngest filmmaker ever to top the box office for a weekend.
Now, the number two movie this past weekend is called Obsession, also produced by a YouTuber, this one 26 years old.
26.
The budget for this supernatural horror story?
Even smaller, man.
A ridiculously small $750,000.
The whole film was shot in 20 days.
And yet, this movie has racked up an ROI of over 100x.
Get these numbers.
Because with less than $1 million in budget, it's already racked up $104 million at the box office in just two weeks.
Basically, Bestie's two YouTubers just sent Disney home from the theme park crying.
This is Rocky beating Apollo.
It's David beating Goliath.
It's Mr. Beast beating Beast from X-Men.
Okay, but Jack, there is one caveat, a little bit of an asterisk we should stick on this story.
Yeah, before you start thinking that YouTube can own Hollywood studios in movie theaters all the time, we should point out both of these movies this past weekend were horror movies.